Shades of Meaning: Vocabulary Activity

This resource contains four sets of synonyms and antonyms for students to sort by meaning. Once sorted, words are organized by varying shades of meaning (i.e. morose-miserable-sad-unbothered-happy-overjoyed-ecstatic) and true synonym/antonym pairs (i.e. selfish/generous, appetizing/unappetizing, etc.).

Graphic organizers included for:

• Shades of Meaning (just synonyms) and Definitions

• Shades of Meaning (synonyms and antonyms) and Definitions

• True Antonym Pairs

• Sentences for Unknown Words

This resource was created for middle school speech and language therapy but is also be appropriate for high school speech and language students or ELA classes.